Archive | December 2021
News for 31 December 2021
Important News for Today:
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‘NTPC Renewable Energy to float tender for 3 GW by Feb.’
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‘New GST rates to push up garment prices’
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Edible oil firms have cut prices by 15-20%: Pandey
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‘India-Australia interim FTA talks to close soon’
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China Minister to visit Maldives, Sri Lanka
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New scheme to support the marginalised
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China urges US to protect its space station from satellites
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Life on Venus? MIT study says Venusian clouds may have habitable pockets
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News for 30 December 2021
Important News for Today:
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‘Bank GNPAs may rise to 9.5% by Sept.’
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‘Govt. may find it hard to meet fiscal deficit target’
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You don’t need a spaceship to grow ‘weird little’ Martian radishes
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Take a closer look: how more and more students are catching the citizen science bug
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James Webb Space Telescope swings past Moon, deploys sunshield pallet
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Journalists must resist being ‘co-opted by ideology or state’: CJI Ramana
- [Important for: Polity, Governance]
News for 29 December 2021
Important News for Today:
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‘Audit irregularities’ led to FCRA denial, says official
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China fumes over ‘close encounter’ in space
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[Important for: IP, IR]
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Japan aims to put a person on the moon by late 2020s
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Thomas Lovejoy, biologist who championed biodiversity, dies at 80
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[Important for: Science & Tech.]
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CT scan helps digitally unwrap mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I
- [Important for: Science & Tech.]
Role of Women during Indian Independence of twentieth century

Even though women are considered to be form of Goddesses in Indian Subcontinent , they were limited by the stereotypes and the structure of our society. The position of women in our society are still better than what it was few centuries back.( Yes!! this is so even with India’s dismal rank of 114 out of 142 countries in gender based disparities.)
News for 28 December 2021
Important News for Today:
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‘Assets under management by LIC doubled in 2020-21’
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Turkey urges Russia to drop ‘one-sided’ NATO demands
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Sri Lanka makes NOC must for foreign spouses
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Manipur may join chorus to repeal AFSPA
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New muscle layer discovered on the human jaw
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News for 27 December 2021
Important News for Today:
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Chinese Ambassador Qi’s visit to Jaffna sparks concern in Sri Lanka
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‘Sri Lanka to sign Trinco deal with India soon’
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Panel to look into AFSPA withdrawal from Nagaland
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‘Law ensuring statutory guarantee for MSP a must’
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40 million-year-old fossil shark named after museum official as she retires
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Scientists discover over 70 rogue planets roaming freely on their own
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News for 26 December 2021
Important News for Today:
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Fulcrum Digital scouts for multiple acquisitions
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China replaces controversial party secretary in Xinjiang
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A telescope on million-mile voyage
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Russia blocks rights group’s site
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Thousands of people march in Sudan’s anti-coup rallies
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ISRO defers launch of three earth observation satellites
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Last known slave ship is remarkably well reserved, researchers say
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Can Marvel Studios’ Multiverse really exist? A physicist explains
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News for 25 December 2021
Important News for Today:
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‘Monetary policy is financially inclusive’
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‘Reverse GST increase on textiles and apparel or risk job losses’
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Plea in SC seeks ‘uniform judicial code’ for High Courts
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Thousands of threatened seahorses killed every year as bycatch in Palk Bay: study
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Can archaeology be used to study the effects of climate change?
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Israeli archaeologists find treasures in ancient shipwrecks
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NASA James Webb Space Telescope launch: How to watch live today
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News for 24 December 2021
Important News for Today:
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Hong Kong loses a symbol of its freedom
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Centre advices caution while using ed-tech platforms
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Madurai gets new Urban Development Authority
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Karnataka passes anti-conversion Bill
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What is UV index? An expert explains what it means and how it’s calculated
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News for 23 December 2021
Important News for Today:
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Israel PM meets U.S. National Security Adviser over Iran
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EU initiates action after Poland violates bloc laws
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‘Changes to marriage age will contradict other laws’
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Market-linked tariff for PPP port projects
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What is UV index? An expert explains what it means and how it’s calculated
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